Ciara's Pink Sparkle Podcast!

I had a chat interview with Jon Lee from pop band S Club. We talked about their recent reunion & their Good Times Tour, their recent Brighton Pride gig, about LGBT awareness & about how the band paid tribute to their band mate Paul Cattermole who sadly died from an underlying heart condition. Jon is an Ambassador for the British Heart Foundation to help them raise awareness of heart issues. https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/who-we-are Jon and Jo from S Club will also be doing a gig soon at Pizza Express in Holborn! https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/choose-seats/jon-lee-jo-omeara/1430608

I chatted with John Byrne who is the Careers Advisor for The Stage which is a famous theatre performers newspaper which started the career of singers like the Spice Girls. We talked about our work careers, about representation of people with a learning disability within theatre and the media and chatted about our own Irish Connections!

Chat with Jack Welch who is a fantastic disability advocate for people with a learning disability. we chatted about our careers and about our work jobs and we chatted about disability issues like employment!

Ian Taverner is known as Mr Cookfulness. He is a disabled cook, food writer. He is also a presenter. In this episode we chatted about his experience of cooking on TV show Sunday Brunch, his enjoyment of getting into cooking & helping to make cooking become more accessible for lots of people!

Chat with Wayne Tunks from my 88 fm in australia. we talked about music and learning disability and our careers and fun places to visit in Australia

Chat with professional dancer Vincent Simone about his career, being on Strictly & about his new theatre tour dance show Legends of the Ballroom with other Strictly pro dancers Pasha, James Jordan and Ian Waite! Web: https://vincentsimone.com/

Chat with Cris, General Manager of Epsom Picture House Cinema. We chatted about disability access in the cinema & about our favourite films too! https://www.picturehouses.com/cinema/epsom-picturehouse

Chat with my husband Mark. We talked about learning disability & difficulties & how we met, our relationship & our wedding day & our hobbies like my podcast!

I chat to TV GP & Dr Philippa Kaye. We chatted health & disability & smear Tests & Screening & charity Eve Appeal which raises awareness of 5 Gynae cancers. I'm a Get Lippy Ambassador!

I chat with Coronation Street Actress Cherylee Houston about people with a disability & Media Representation & her character on Corrie & we chatted about this week which is Learning Disability Week 2024!